Dead Internet Theory proposes that the overwhelming majority of the content you encounter on the Internet is not the product of living human minds, but something else entirely. Under this theory, the rare human browser is like a rat trapped in a maze built by unseen intelligences, manipulated by impostors and algorithms for their own opaque purposes. That lukewarm product review, the pointed film criticism, those heated political arguments are not a manifestation of genuine human sentiment but rather the automated output of repetitive spambots, a rogue Markov chain or nowadays, perhaps a Large Language Model trained on the previous iteration of synthetic web content.
Yes, that includes this text you're reading. I could promise that I am made of the same flesh as you (although most of you may well be bots scraping E2 for training data to feed the next
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